Even colder would be better
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threemonkeysIts blowing that kind of northerly wind again. There is a particular kind of cold damp northerly which just sets me on edge. It makes me angry or depressed depending on any little disposition I happen to have to those things on the day. Today I was feeling distinctly down as the wind started to blow. I have no idea why, but there it has a real physiological impact on me.
Not therefore a good time to go to my first Phoenix committee meeting for a year. I dropped off the committee a year ago because I was getting a bit disgruntled so the risk was there. But this meeting was good. My mood evaporated to one of good feeling and it was a productive and worthwhile meeting. A very good sign.
It probably also wasn't a good day to finish off The Right Hand of God by Russell Kirkpatrick. This is the final volume of his Fire of Heaven series. But again that worked pretty well. I have been reading it on and off for the last week and my feelings going into the last 150 pages this morning was of a mixed effort. Russell wrote these books quite some time ago and talking to him at a con last year it was obvious that he had moved a long way as a person since then. I suspect that because he has had more time with this volume since the books were accepted that he has had more of a chance to make some changes. However its hard to make changes and still leave the overall tone consistent with the earlier work. That is why I think it has ended up being a bit lumpy in style.
But this morning I read the conclusion. It was as if he had put his foot on the accelerator. The pace picked up and built and built and there were a lot of twists and turns in a story which had been fairly linear up until this time. I am not at all sure that I liked what the story actually did but I did like the way Russell wrote it.
A couple of other points. First, the landscape was a major character in the story yet again. This has been the characteristic of this series and is continued here. Secondly, if you did not like all the teen angst in the fifth Harry Potter book then you may want to give this a miss.
Not therefore a good time to go to my first Phoenix committee meeting for a year. I dropped off the committee a year ago because I was getting a bit disgruntled so the risk was there. But this meeting was good. My mood evaporated to one of good feeling and it was a productive and worthwhile meeting. A very good sign.
It probably also wasn't a good day to finish off The Right Hand of God by Russell Kirkpatrick. This is the final volume of his Fire of Heaven series. But again that worked pretty well. I have been reading it on and off for the last week and my feelings going into the last 150 pages this morning was of a mixed effort. Russell wrote these books quite some time ago and talking to him at a con last year it was obvious that he had moved a long way as a person since then. I suspect that because he has had more time with this volume since the books were accepted that he has had more of a chance to make some changes. However its hard to make changes and still leave the overall tone consistent with the earlier work. That is why I think it has ended up being a bit lumpy in style.
But this morning I read the conclusion. It was as if he had put his foot on the accelerator. The pace picked up and built and built and there were a lot of twists and turns in a story which had been fairly linear up until this time. I am not at all sure that I liked what the story actually did but I did like the way Russell wrote it.
A couple of other points. First, the landscape was a major character in the story yet again. This has been the characteristic of this series and is continued here. Secondly, if you did not like all the teen angst in the fifth Harry Potter book then you may want to give this a miss.
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Date: 2005-05-28 09:42 am (UTC)*reverses away from trilogy at high speed*
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Date: 2005-05-28 10:33 am (UTC)